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EDITORIAL REVIEW: Tense and suspense-filled thriller from the author of THE STRAW MEN and THE LONELY DEAD. Ward Hopkins' past come backs to haunt him with a vengeance when an ex-CIA colleague tracks him down, desperate for help in solving a bizarre series of events. Meanwhile Ward's brother, the serial killer known as the Upright Man, has escaped from prison - where he was awaiting trial for murders beyond number. And Hopkins' erstwhile ally, former homicide cop John Zandt, is still on the trail of the organization which killed his daughter and Ward's parents. The further John investigates, the more extraordinary the secrets he uncovers. The shadows are gathering, and across America sinister forces are stirring. Only Ward, John and FBI agent Nina Baynam stand against this tide, and against the Upright Man - who now has a grudge against just about everyone in the world. It's only a question of where the next killings will start... and whether they will ever stop.

EDITORIAL REVIEW: An electrifying thriller from the author of the international bestseller THE STRAW MEN. A guilty man walks alone into the cold mountain forests of Washington State, aiming never to return. What he finds there starts a chain of events that will quickly spiral out of control. Meanwhile in Los Angeles a woman's body is discovered, sitting bolt upright in a motel bedroom. She is dead, and her killer has left his mark. It soon becomes clear he has something to say, and a lot more work to do. And Ward Hopkins, an ex-CIA agent recovering from the recent shocking death of his parents, is on the trail of his past, tracking down the men who destroyed everything he once held dear, and the murderer whose face he sees every time he looks in the mirror. These three are ominous strands in a web of deadly secrets, roads to a dark history that should never have been told. There are people who will do anything to protect it. Anything at all. It's not a matter of who dies. We're all going to die. What matters is who dies last. Michael Marshall's unique voice adds a chilling intensity to the serial-killer plot, combining dazzling narrative, a white-hot pace and a deeply disturbing backdrop of conspiracy.

SUMMARY: In Palmerston, Pennsylvania, two men in long coats walk calmly into a crowded fast food restaurant-then, slowly and methodically, gun down sixty-eight people. They take time to reload. On the Promenade of Santa Monica, California, a teenaged girl gives sightseeing tips to a distinguished English tourist. She won't be going home tonight. In Dyersburg, Montana, a grief-stricken son tries to make sense of the accident that killed his parents-then finds a note stuffed in his father's favorite chair. It says, "We're not dead." Three seemingly unrelated events, these are the first signs of an unimaginable network of fear that will lead one unlikely hero to a chilling confrontation with The Straw Men. No one knows who they are-or why they kill. But they must be stopped. Michael Marshall's electrifying debut novel is an instant masterpiece of modern suspense. An epic thriller for anyone who has feared that someone is watching us.

Stephen King hailed Michael Marshall's novel Straw Men as “a masterpiece . . . brilliantly written and scary as hell.” Now, Marshall returns with this latest unnerving tale—a creepy, fast-paced thriller that grips you from the first page straight through to its shocking end.

Bill Moore already has a lot, but he wants more . . . much more.

He's got a lucrative job selling condos in the Florida Keys, a successful wife, a good marriage, a beautiful house. He also has a five-year plan for supersuccess, but that plan has begun to drag into its sixth year without reaping its intended rewards. So now Bill's starting to mix it up—just a little—to accelerate his way into the future that he knows he deserves.

Then one morning Bill arrives at work to find a card waiting for him, with no indication who it's from or why it was sent. Its message is just one word: modified.

From that moment on, Bill's life begins to change.

At first, nothing...

Cuando los peores temores del presente se convierten en la vida del futuro.

Un alucinado viaje de ida y vuelta entre el sórdido mundo de lo real y el aterrador universo de las sombras.

Jack Randall regresa clandestinamente a Nueva Richmond, una gigantesca aeronave, antiguo Centro Comercial. varada en tierra y reconvertida en ciudad. Trae del mundo externo un grupo de clones humanos (fabricados para que sus órganos sirvan de repuesto a sus modelos), a los que ha liberado de su terrible destino y dado una cierta conciencia de su ser. Los clones —su existencia— son de algún modo reflejo de una sociedad cruel, rígidamente compartimentada que ha convertido el desprecio a los inferiores en una filosofía política. Cuando varios de los clones son raptados, Randall emprende su rescate. Una aventura que le llevará por los diferentes estratos de la ciudad y que le forzará a enfrentarse con un pasado, el suyo propio, teñido por el infinito horror del asesinato de su familia, tan brutal como innecesario. Y que, al final, le conducirá al Abismo, el escenario sombrío e irreal de una vieja guerra, forja de lo peor de cuantos participaron en ella.

Clones es al tiempo una parábola futurista, una reflexión acerca de la naturaleza humana y sobre todo una trepidante novela de acción, siempre absorbente y al tiempo sutil. Ello explica la extraordinaria repercusión que ha tenido en todo el mundo: en cierto modo, porque es el Blade Runner de los años noventa.

In Montana, a man attends the funeral of his parents, ostensibly killed in a car crash. In Los Angeles, a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by a man assumed dead. These events are linked by the fact that in both there is something missing. As there is in so much of the

world, for so much of the time. What's missing is a secret, something which strikes at the heart of what it is to be human. What it is that makes us this way. "Sarah tries to struggle, but the man holds her. The scream never makes it out of her

throat… Sarah is the fifth girl to be abducted by this maniac. Her long hair will be hacked off and she will be tortured. She has about a week to live… Former LA homicide detective John Zandt has an inside track on the perpetrator — his own daughter was one of his victims. But the key to Sarah's whereabouts lies with Ward Hopkins, a man with a past so secret not even he knows about it. As he investigates his past. Ward finds himself drawn into the sinister world of the Straw Men — and into the desperate race to find Sarah, before her time runs out…"

"Brilliantly written and scary as hell." Stephen King.

Michael Marshall is a novelist and screenwriter. He has already established a successful writing career under the name Michael Marshall Smith. His groundbreaking first novel, Only Forward, won the Philip K. Dick and August Derleth awards; its critically-acclaimed successors. Spares and One of Us, have both been optioned for film. He lives in North London.

Il seguito di “Uomini di Paglia” prende le mosse dalla fuga di Ward Hopkins, ex-agente della CIA, dal quartier generale del gruppo sovversivo che intende usare ogni mezzo per riportare l’umanità alla sua purezza primitiva. Il leader carismatico del gruppo, il fantomatico Homo Erectus, è ancora in circolazione, e Ward sa che tornerà a braccarlo. Quando, insieme a John Zandt che ha ricevuto una soffiata, Ward si mette sulle tracce del tenebroso fratello, ad attenderlo ci saranno ancora una volta indecifrabili messaggi nascosti in efferati delitti e un mistero che affonda le proprie radici nella storia della fondazione dell’America.

Kill or be killed. Take or be taken. These are the only choices now.

One time politician Elizabeth Clarke has put her career on hold to start a family. A decision which ultimately saved her life. On a day when she should have been attending parliament. Instead, she was at home doing the ironing with her sleeping daughter upstairs. That was when the warnings came. There wasn’t much time to prepare.

An attack on the country and possibly the world has forever changed the landscape of their lives. Unequipped and uninformed Lizzy must learn the hard way what it is she needs to do in order to survive.

Without power or protection, the family of two begin their journey across a lawless Britain to find her loved ones. If they are still alive.

(Some swearing, some sex, some violence.)

It all began with an online date, which led Marina Peters into the ruthless world of international espionage. This is a first novel from an experienced writer of non-fiction books. It describes how Marina Peters’ grandparents emigrated to England from Russia in the 1930s. She is a likeable and quietly ambitious single young woman working at the Royal Navy’s Portsmouth Base on the Dockyard Commodore’s staff. Nikolai Aldanov is a handsome 35-year old widower and a Lieutenant in the Russian Navy who has been corresponding with Marina through an online dating site. The pair have been sharing details of their lives, common interests and histories and have struck up quite a friendship. When Marina arranges to meet her Russian Lieutenant in person, she has no inkling of the unexpected consequences of her date, as she is introduced into the ruthless world of international espionage.

Novela de aventuras coloniales que transcurre en la India y donde aparece una de las constantes de este narrador ultra conservador y en ocasiones reaccionario: el mestizaje de su protagonista, lo que origina un conflicto no ya de clase sino racial. El chico que tiene la mitad de su sangre blanca quiere ser blanco pese a los obstáculos que le impone la rígida sociedad en la que se desenvuelve. El Teniente de Bengala es una de esas novelas donde pasa de todo a un ritmo endiabladamente veloz. Hay romance, aventura, engaño, traiciones, heroísmo...Se trata de una excelente novela de aventuras, y no es de extrañar que varias obras de este autor hayan sido llevadas al cine.

Tu vida en las redes sociales ya no será la misma. Cuando Louise Williams recibe un mensaje procedente de alguien de su pasado muy lejano, su corazón da un vuelco. «Tienes una solicitud de amistad pendiente de Maria Weston». El problema es que María Weston desapareció hace más de veinticinco años, tras la fiesta de fin de curso del instituto. Todo el mundo cree que está muerta, y especialmente Louise, que ha vivido todo este tiempo custodiando un terrible secreto. Sin embargo, los mensajes de Maria continúan, y cada vez son más escalofriantes. ¿Quién los envía? Al reconectar con los viejos compañeros y tratar de averiguar qué sucedió realmente aquella noche, Louise descubre que hay muchas cosas que desconocía. ¿Qué le ocurrió realmente a Maria?

Han encarcelado a Richard Reece en la Tierra y está a la espera de la decisión del tribunal militar. Se lo acusa de malversar la propiedad de la FICE, concretamente, el diario de vuelo de la accidentada nave Estrella de Esperanza. El Servicio Secreto Británico lo llama para que vaya a Londres y sobrevive a dos atentados contra su vida. En el primero, los atacantes son unos agentes de un corrupto conglomerado internacional y, en el segundo, una siniestra figura que vestía ropas religiosas. Durante la reunión posterior, se le ofrece un trato: ayudar a encontrar un Arca ancestral que, al parecer, contiene un cristal perdido y, a cambio, se retirarán todos los cargos en su contra.Además, descubre que su prometida, Rachel Turner, tiene una doble vida. Emocionalmente destrozado, acepta la misión. A partir de entonces, textos antiguos, monumentos históricos, agentes de los conglomerados, junto con sus mortales máquinas, y una bella y misteriosa mujer manipularán su destino hasta que su misión se vuelva una aventura.

Ambientada en el año 2049, esta novela futurista es la primera de la serie de cinco libros. Propone un escenario realista para la exploración novata del hombre al espacio y nuestros planetas vecinos. El libro comienza de forma bastante inocente con un interesante y cautivador descubrimiento en Marte. Luego, se desarrolla como una rápida historia de suspenso que abarca las civilizaciones antiguas de la Tierra, textos históricos fascinantes, intenciones criminales, cibersistemas sádicos, relaciones fallidas y secuencias de acción llenas de adrenalina. Gran parte de los sucesos ocurren en la superficie de Marte, un planeta que siempre enciende la imaginación y que seguirá siendo uno de los principales intereses científicos en la siguiente década, ya que la humanidad está cerca de concretar un aterrizaje en él. Otros lugares incluidos en la historia del libro son la Luna, una estación espacial y una nave revolucionaria, escenarios que sirven para cimentar varios relatos secundarios en una historia extraordinaria, estimulante y reflexiva. “Las Revelaciones de Osiris” es el primer libro de la aclamada “Serie Kalahari” de AJ Marshall. Los siguientes cuatro títulos (“El Opositor del Baluarte”– Episodio 1, 2 y 3” y “Comando Insurrecto”) también están disponibles como eBooks en español neutro.